The Fair Labor Association will conduct special voluntary audits of Apple’s final assembly suppliers, including Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China, the Mac maker has announced. The audits are being carried out at Apple’s request. FLA President Auret van Heerden is leading a team of labor rights experts who reportedly began the first...
Apple’s former retail chief, Ron Johnson, is now the CEO of JC Penney. He has his way cut out for himself to get the business back on its feet, and he’s going to trust his gut on what he’s doing to improve things, just like Steve Jobs taught him. In a televised interview with...
Hardware vendor Other World Computing (OWC) is launching its Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G SSD upgrade for MacBook Air users. The kit can increase your storage capacity to 480GB with 6G (6Gb/s) and 3G data rate capabilities. The Aura Pro modules are said to deliver higher performance, functionality, and reliability than the factory installed...
Apple’s new CEO certainly has what it takes to make profits soar, but one former employee believes he has enough charisma to be the next president of the United States. Speaking to Adam Lashinsky at LinkedIn, the former Apple employee confirmed an interesting account from the author’s book, Inside Apple, regarding fake product testing....
A study by e-commerce company RichRelevance reveals that iOS device owners accounted for 92% of all mobile purchases made until December, and that they spent 19% more per order than Android users. In April this year, RichRelevance conducted a similar survey which said that Apple’s iOS devices accounted for 88% of all mobile purchases....
Cricket has just announced its first 4G LTE services are now commercially available in Tucson, Arizona. The carrier’s move marks the start of its multi-year transition to 4G LTE network. Although the services will be available only in Tucson at launch the carrier confirmed that further expansion is planned for nearby Nogales, Arizona...
All those Android users who started to feel envy when Apple announced the release of Siri for the iPhone now have their own similar service to take advantage of, Cluzee. Coming from Tronton LLC, Cluzee is expected to prove a great personal assistant to all Android users, being pushed out as a ‘talking intelligent...
Practice Fusion, a fast-growing Electronic Health Record community in the US, unveiled an ‘iPad Prototype’ at this year’s Connect conference. The prototype iPad EHR solution aims to be the most inexpensive and easy to implement of its kind by 2012. Known as the “Father of Visual Basic” and a frequent author on usability, Alan...
n-Tier, a provider of information management software, has announced a new iPad app called AccessPoint. It’s said to enable people to access all of their business or personal files directly on their iPad, wherever they are. Not that Dropbox doesn’t do all that (and more), but I guess we can hear n-Tier out, since...
They say “This is critical as everyone in the industry looks to provide a viable alternative to Apple’s closed application ecosystem – as Google’s Android gains market share – and as smartphones, tablets and connected TVs drive apps to the cloud.” With Steve Jobs gone, the speaker line-up looks like a bunch of sharks...
